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Since his room in the hotel had been tidied up and was ready for him, he could go there for some rest after the lecture.Yet, what he unwittingly said about her giving birth soon made all the students explode in excitement.“Spread the news! Professor Hughes has a wife and a child!”“Share it with everyone! Professor Hughes’s wife is about to give birth!”Their words spread like wildfire through text, until almost everyone in school became aware of it.All the bystanders were so excited by the news, which had spread at the speed of light, to Old Mr. Hughes.Jim, the subject of the gossip, was the only one who remained calm and nonchalant about everyone’s questions. His indifferent yet polite and gentlemanly smile continued to stretch across his face.Back at the hotel, Diana was restless after hanging up her call with Jim.The fact that she could not contact Julian was strange enough.Even if he didn’t come, he would at least give her a call.But now, both hers and Betty’s ph
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She opened her eyes, and smiled apologetically at him.The next moment, the smile froze on her face.Wait…Fear and doubt filled her eyes in an instant. “Professor Hughes, how did you get in here?”This was hers and Betty’s room. How could she rest easy knowing that a man could come in so easily?!“I have the room card,” Jim said. He raised the card in his hand, and glanced at another room card on Diana’s bedside table. “Since you have mine, I should take yours, too. Fair exchange is no robbery.”He smiled.Was this the way to a fair exchange? The thought sent chills down Diana’s spine.If Diana continued making excuses for Jim and thinking that he was just another normal, good person, she would truly be a fool. She wondered if the conclusion she arrived at before she fell asleep had been right after all.“Professor Hughes,” Diana said, feeling even more calm in the face of danger.Although she was just over the age of twenty, she had gone through much more compared to ordi
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Kate Renforth was her biological mother?Diana couldn’t tell if she felt happy or disappointed.She signaled for Jim to go on. “Kate is my mother’s good friend,” Jim said. “They’ve been friends since young, but she doesn’t remember my mother now.”He ignored the urgency in Diana’s eyes, and lifted his arms in a gesture to remind her to breathe. “Relax. Otherwise, I won’t go on.”He didn’t want Diana doing anything that might harm the babies.Diana had to do her best to relax herself. She even pulled over two pillows and tucked it behind her.That was when Jim finally went on, “Kate took the pill that erases one’s memories, like the one you took.”He said it way too casually.It immediately exposed the reason behind why Diana lost her memories back then. Yet, she didn’t recall ever telling Jim about this.“I concocted the medicine you took,” Jim said with a smile. Diana realized that his smile now was very different from his usual warm and humble smile. This time, his smile
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He wanted to return to the previous topic about Diana’s birth circumstance. He still wanted to talk about Kate.That was also something that Diana cared very much about.She fell silent immediately, and stopped talking.Jim started speaking again, “My mother was a trained medical professional too, but her work was never recognized. That was because she believed that testing out drugs on humans was necessary to concoct medicines that were truly useful.”Diana nodded. She had heard about drug trials. The late Professor Ian Lemmington’s daughter, Anna, probably died from a drug trial.Her heart started beating faster.Jim continued—this time, he threw Diana a bomb. “For example, the first memory-loss pill your mother Kate Renforth took was the same as the one you took. She’s considered the first to test out the drug, and the effects were pretty good.“But because the drug wasn’t exactly complete, her memories weren’t completely cleared like yours did. Although she forgot my mothe
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Diana thought the same. Otherwise, they wouldn’t have needed to go to such great lengths to invent a memory loss pill.The thought of the burdens of the past Kate was forced to bear brought Diana to tears. Her feelings toward Kate became even more complicated, and she felt her heart being torn apart. “People like you aren’t fit to be doctors!” she screamed.“I’m not a doctor,” Jim said as he pushed his glasses up his nose bridge. He looked even more confused and innocent than Diana. “My mother isn’t a doctor, either. We are merely researchers in the medical field.”“My ass!” Diana couldn’t hide her disgust toward Jim any longer. She spat at him, and exclaimed, “What researchers? Don’t insult that term! Don’t insult experts, either! You people are thieves who make use of resources and advanced knowledge to steal and destroy other people’s lives!”Diana glared at the indifferent man standing before her. At that instant, Jim was filled with doubt.He couldn’t understand her t
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Laws governed this country, after all!Diana gradually calmed down, and pushed him away. “I don’t want you touching me.”Jim wasn’t angry. He simply comforted her, saying, “Okay, I won’t touch you.”He even lifted his arms, for fear that she might misunderstand him. Seeing this, Diana realized that while Jim might harbor ill intentions toward her babies, at the very least, he had no plans of harming her yet. Diana, Betty, and her babies were safe until her babies were born. However, there was a possibility that they might be stuck in this hotel until then.Betty was still asleep. If she woke up, she might want to head out. When she realized that she couldn’t leave this city and see Julian, she’d definitely be upset. She might even cry.The thought of her daughter feeling lost and rejected made Diana’s chest constrict with sorrow. She looked at Jim, trying to figure out his ulterior motives.“My mother…” she said again, thinking of Kate. She had mixed feelings. “She doesn’t kn
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“I already have the baby I want.”Diana almost burst into tears.However, Jim didn’t like to see her cry. That wasn’t good for the babies in her stomach. She didn’t even dare to cry right now. The level of cruelty that this man was demonstrating…He was governed by strange logic, completely disregarding the lives of others. He was cruel in every aspect of the word, and the very personification of Satan!Diana clenched her fists. She subconsciously turned to look at her daughter, who was fast asleep.She said in a low voice, “I have to go through a cesarean section for this birth…”She looked at Jim. “Do you know that?”“I do,” Jim nodded, his face looking as gentlemanly as usual. Even so, Diana could finally see the devil in him now.He explained indifferently, “After the babies are out, they can live as long as they have milk.”He looked at Diana’s stomach, and suppressed the urge to caress her stomach and lean in close to talk to the babies. “Don’t worry. I’ll raise him
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Jim had pinned down Diana's hands. She lay on the pristine white bed in a posture of absolute suppression. Jim firmly restrained her hands and feet.If he hadn't reacted quickly just now, Diana might have hit the back of his head with the table lamp within her reach.This woman… Jim was speechless, not understanding why Diana would treat him this way."Have I treated you badly?"He provided her with food and drink, noticed her unhappiness in Richburgh, helped her purchase tickets to Jacroaof, and now, in order to ensure her stable pregnancy, he had even booked an entire hotel.Jim took a deep breath. He loosened his grip on Diana's hand slightly, his gaze calmly falling on her abdomen. When he spoke again, he sounded quite upset."I even told you about your background, and brought James to you."The man in front of Diana appeared sophisticated and refined. If it weren't for the disturbing and unbelievable words she heard just now, and if he wasn't currently controlling her,
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“Life is all about reconciliation.” Decades passed in the blink of an eye. Diana’s children had all grown up.Kate and Isaac had both passed away. Even Diana’s old friends, Fanny and Oliver, had left the world too.Fanny was never able to get pregnant again after that rainy night. She had gradually let go of her desire to get pregnant under Oliver’s persuasion.They stayed relentlessly by each other’s side, albeit childless. Over the years, having experienced all that life had to offer and being each other’s best friend, Oliver died on a peaceful night, never awaking again.Fanny held his hand while sending him off, and closed her eyes forever as well.Diana had seen too many people off in her lifetime.She had grown old herself, too. She could see her life slowly ebbing away.“Julian, I’m so happy to have lived my life with you.” She had transformed from a disgraced young woman to Mrs. Fulcher, respected by all in Richburgh. Julian even took care of her in person when she
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He blurted those words instinctively.He had been waiting so long for a pair of daughters, yet when the doctor came over, he saw a pair of sons instead.Diana thought the hospital must have made a mistake and kicked up a fuss, insisting that she had a pair of daughters. She insisted for them to check the footage from the surveillance camera to see if there was a mix-up. The culprit, Julian, could only stand guiltily at a corner and mumble, “Actually…sons are fine too.”As long as it was their children, it didn’t matter whether they were girls or boys. Either way, Diana was the only woman he loved his entire life. Even his love for his only daughter Betty didn’t match up to that.After witnessing Diana giving birth, Julian’s love for Diana went up a notch, to the point of paranoia.For the rest of their lives, he made sure to never let her worry or touch cold water.He took great care of her.Kate finally appeared two years after Diana gave birth.When the mother and daughter
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Nina mentioned the Jenningses. “The Jennings family is gone overnight, just like that.”Diana wasn’t shocked.She guessed that Julian had wanted to do that for a while. Not just for her and to seek justice for the Lemmington family, but also for Simon.Although Julian never allowed Simon to call him his brother, he had wanted to annihilate everything that was involved with the Hughes family since Simon’s death.Him making his move on the Jenningses indicated that the time had come.“Congratulations,” Diana said to Nina. “Has Vans come back to you?”“No,” Nina said with a shake of her head. “Lina Jennings isn’t the only thing standing in between us. We have problems of our own to overcome.”Diana sighed. “I think Marcus is pretty good.”She felt relaxed and comfortable around him.Even if Vans came round and worked with Julian to bring down the Jenningses, and had no feelings whatsoever for Lina, Diana wasn’t exactly eager to be with him.As if they had telepathy with each oth
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“He doesn’t need to be jailed,” Fanny said, confused. “One word from him, and his lawyers will be able to exonerate him. I just don’t understand why he’d rather go to jail.”“He wants to pay for his father’s sins,” Diana said with a sigh.Fanny didn’t know what to think of that. Was Oliver innocent, or not? He even went to such great lengths to stop her.Yet, the moment she declared that she would never compromise and would rather be under the protection of Diana than to be involved with Oliver, he clearly looked like he was in a daze.Diana noticed that Fanny hardly smiled over the past few days, and rubbed her hand comfortingly. “He just wants a clean start with you.”Fanny’s heart shook. She couldn’t sleep the entire night.The next morning, she told Diana, “Today’s the day of his trial and sentencing. I want to see him.”Diana asked Julian to send a few bodyguards with Fanny on her trip there.When she returned, she looked as if a heavy burden had been lifted from her shoul
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Fanny bet that he wouldn’t dare.That was equivalent to eliminating all chances he stood with Diana.Julian witnessed the scene unfolding before him. Instead of getting frustrated, he stood quietly there, ready to protect Diana, as he watched Fanny and Oliver fight it out with each other.Oliver was confused. “Why not?”He glanced at Diana, and went on, “I did like Diana in the past, but I have since given up on those feelings for her. Fanny Smith, is your heart made of stone? Can’t you tell who the woman I like is after all this time?”Fanny was stunned, feeling suffocated as if something was stuck in her throat. “Don’t tell me it’s me.”Oliver was dumbfounded. Who else could he be talking about? The stars in the sky?Fanny felt indignant under his glare. “If you like me, why did you say that I’m just a child-bearing tool for you?”“If I didn’t say that, would I be able to keep you confined in the villa? Would I be able to dash all your hopes and make you feel hopeless?”
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Oliver would never let her go. “Fanny Smith, don’t even think about leaving me in this life!”That was when Diana and Julian hurriedly made their way.Sean located Oliver very accurately. Diana saw the scene unfolding before her, and couldn’t help but recall everything that happened in Jacroaof. She hurriedly told Noel to take Sean outside and wait. She couldn’t afford to gamble on Sean’s safety. She didn’t want Sean exposed to any form of danger right under her nose.Her actions made Oliver tense. “Diana, do you think I’ve gone mad?” He grabbed Fanny’s hand, as if he was holding onto the most precious treasure in the world.Diana didn’t answer him, but she threw her bag that Julian was helping her carry toward Fanny.She was exerting so much force for a pregnant lady, looking as if she wanted to fight with Fanny.Even Julian didn’t know what Diana was trying to do, not to mention Fanny herself.By the time he snapped back to attention and wanted to stop Diana from doing s
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However, Fanny must let go of her hatred and past grudges first.The mention of children made Fanny waver. The hatred in her eyes grew even more intense. “Oliver Channing! The cheek of you to mention children!” What gave him the right to say that?!“We agreed,” Oliver said. He didn’t find anything wrong with that. “Fanny, if you want to leave that villa and be free once more, you must give birth to a child of ours.”“What about the child I lost just a few days ago?” Fanny demanded. She found him unreasonable. “Over the past few days, have you ever thought of him, or felt like you let him down? We haven’t even resolved the issues between us, and you want me to get pregnant again. Are you really ready to be a father?!”“I want you to get pregnant again?” Oliver said as he drew closer to her. His eyes were dark, looking as if he wanted to crush Fanny and put her in his pocket. “Weren’t you the one who tried to seduce me by wearing a revealing dress in my house? Fanny Smith, do
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Julian stopped talking to the butler, but he was already making plans in his heart.He returned to the study, and told Diana, “Fanny and Oliver have been fighting for a long time, and it might be over something that might potentially destroy their relationship.”In fact… “Fanny might no longer love Oliver right now.”However, the fact that Oliver faked her death and confined her was enough to show that he still cared for her.If he realized that Fanny no longer loved him, he might do something even crazier.“Let’s hurry up and save her, then!” Diana said.“Wait,” Julian said calmly, “I’m not done with my prediction.”“What?”“Oliver really doesn’t like you now.” Julian’s mood lifted as he arrived at his final conclusion. “We can step in to help Fanny.”Diana was dumbfounded.She had thought that Julian went to such great lengths to analyze the situation for the sake of saving another. To think that his possessiveness took over, and he prioritized figuring out Oliver’s feeli
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The three of them entered the study.None of them expected to see a portrait of Diana right in the middle of the study.The portrait was most likely drawn by copying a photo. In the portrait, Diana was eating something with a smile. It looked like the day when Diana encountered a pervert on the train and Oliver stepped in to help her and treated her to a meal.Did she smile so tenderly at him at that time?“You couldn’t have smiled so happily at that time when we were fighting over Kayla.”It was a portrait, not a photo. It was likely that the owner of this portrait added his own interpretation and features when he commissioned this portrait.“He still has feelings for you,” Julian said coldly.He no longer wanted to interfere with the affairs of the Channings.However, Diana disagreed. “If he really had feelings for me, he wouldn’t hang my portrait up so boldly right here.”The fact that Oliver could display the portrait for all to see proved that his feelings for Diana were
